Did you notice how all the steak strips are essentially the same thickness and width? That's achieved by pasting together meat scraps and scrapings using something called "transglutaminase", which causes muscle fibers to stick together. Then the "beef" is seasoned, shaped, and extruded through an automatic cooker, and sliced off into fajita strips for inclusion in your $1.99 meal ($0.66 per fajita!).

I saw some Jamie Oliver show where he tried to gross out the kiddies, showing them how chicken carcasses are processed to get bits of chicken meat which are then pasted together to make nuggets. He made a big deal about it. The kids were suitably impressed.

However, I was reminded how people in poor countries, and recently poor countries like China, eat every goddamn scrap of meat on whatever animal they've grabbed and killed. Eyeballs, tongues, brains, and toes... it's all fair game, nutritious and (they say) delicious. I fail to see how the "frankenfood" industrial processing of meat and meat by-products is any different from anything humans have been doing for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.